Treasure Trove CALIFORNIA Forty Famous Poems by various authors..... Compiled by WILLIAM S. LORD THE INDEX COMPANY 1898 ON HIS BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light was spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent His state That murmur, soon replies: God doth not need -John Milton SONG FROM "AS YOU LIKE IT." Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen Because thou art not seen, Altho thy breath be rude. Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly! This life is most jolly! Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot; Tho' thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not. Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly! Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly; Then, heigh ho! the holly! This life is most jolly -William Shakespeare. 513412 CONCORD FIGHT. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conquerer silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept, Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. A VALENTINE. Choose me your Valentine! Next, let us marry! Love to the death will pine If we long tarry. Promise and keep your vows, Or vow you never! Love's doctrine disallows Troth-breakers ever. You have broke promise twice, Dear, to undo me. If you prove faithless thrice, None then will woo ye. -Robert Herrick. RUTH. She stood breast high amid the corn, On the cheek an autumn flush Round her eyes her tresses fell,- And her hat with shady brim Sure, I said, heaven did not mean -Thomas Hood. |